"Early Christian inscriptions confirm the Catholic doctrine of the Resurrection, the sacraments, the veneration of the Blessed Virgin, and the primacy of the Apostolic See. It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance of these evidences, for they are always entirely incidental elements of the sepulchral inscriptions, all of which were pre-eminently eschatological in their purpose."
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Carl Maria Kaufmann
Carl Maria Kaufmann (2 March 1872 – 6 February 1951) was a German biblical archaeologist.
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